re: NBA Playoffs 04/26 Thread Ft. conz's Heat, Smoke's Hawks, Fun Bunch's Pels, Jackwoods Suns

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I'm saying that the comparisons to Luka and needing a 2nd star are a cop out.

If Trae had averaged 35 ppg and the Hawks dropped the series then yea it'd be the same. When it comes to "winning" both players could use more help. That's fair.

But we aren't necessarily talking about winning. We are talking about Trae having a historically bad playoff series where he had games scoring 8, 9, and 11 points.

That is inexcusable and has absolutely nothing to do with his teammates. Good players fill up the stat sheet on bad teams All. The. Time.

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A cop out for what? No one is even pretending like he didn't have a disastrous series. Winning is the point of it all. My point is that Trae has proven in the playoffs that he can be a superstar. That doesn't excuse him playing horrible. I'm just saying he's done it before and won while doing it.

A part of the problem is that some of you get so caught up in this Trae v Luka thing. I'm a Hawks fan, not a Trae Young fan. I don't give a shite about which player is "better" as long as the Hawks are winning games because that's ultimately what players are judged on anyway.